From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 6 17:50:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 559B316A4DE for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:50:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayve@sfsu.edu) Received: from iron1.sfsu.edu (iron1.sfsu.edu [130.212.10.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D5DA43D6E for ; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 17:50:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kayve@sfsu.edu) Received: from diana.sfsu.edu ([130.212.10.239]) by iron1.sfsu.edu with ESMTP; 06 Sep 2006 10:50:06 -0700 X-BrightmailFiltered: true X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Received: from libra.sfsu.edu (kayve@libra.sfsu.edu [130.212.10.238]) by diana.sfsu.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k86Ho5QJ1601558; Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:50:05 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 10:50:04 -0700 (PDT) From: KAYVEN RIESE To: Scot Hetzel In-Reply-To: <790a9fff0609061035p40734023h6a448512cdba56e3@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <790a9fff0609061035p40734023h6a448512cdba56e3@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: no /usr/ports X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 17:50:09 -0000 ortsnap: URL must be given via command line or configuration file. kayve# /usr/local/sbin/portsnap extract No snapshot available. Try running # portsnap fetch kayve# pkg_add -r cvsup Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5.4-release/Latest/cvsup.tbz... Done. kayve# cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile cvsup: Command not found. kayve# whereis cvsup cvsup: /usr/local/bin/cvsup /usr/local/man/man1/cvsup.1.gz kayve# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile Cannot get IP address of my own host -- is its hostname correct? kayve# /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 2 -h cvsup FreeBSD.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile "/usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile" is not a directory kayve# On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On 9/6/06, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: >> >> my ports directory is gone. how'd that happen? >> > What were you doing before it disapeared? > > There are several ways to make /usr/ports disapear: > > 1. rm -rf /usr/ports/* > 2. cvs update -R RELENG_6 > 3. cvsup with an branch tag in the supfile for ports. > > Problem 2 & 3 are similar, as the ports tree is not branched. This > causes cvs or cvsup to delete the ports since there is no branch with > that tag (i.e. RELENG_6). Instead you need to specify a release tag > (i.e. RELEASE_6_1_0) or no tag (gets you the latest ports changes). > > If your using cvsup, post your supfile and someone will help you fix it. > > Scot > -- > DISCLAIMER: > No electrons were mamed while sending this message. Only slightly bruised. >